You’ll know live visualism has arrived when visualists regularly “headline” the way music does. But if you’re tired of waiting, look no further than Western Pennsylvania, where Pittsburgh’s spectacular Via Festival this week is doing it right.

See what they’re doing for a great example of what’s possible when visualists and musicians meet — and, since the vast majority of you likely can’t make it to Pittsburgh this week, we’ve put together some videos from the VIA folks to give you a cross section of this work.

We’ve covered Abstract Birds/Quayola’s retina-tingling visuals here before, from Montréal’s Elektra Festival. Now, they’re coupled with Four Tet, a meeting of talents that also attracted the attention of New York’s Creator’s Project event also this month.

The whole lineup includes this kind of work, though, at once technologically stunning and creatively inspiring, from some of the best live visual artists around (and a few of them Friends of the Site, to boot). VIA Festival lines it up for CDM: